{"id":99,"date":"2019-05-22T10:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2019-05-22T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T14:52:26","slug":"am-i-a-strong-candidate-for-oci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/2019\/05\/22\/am-i-a-strong-candidate-for-oci\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I a Strong Candidate for OCI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there are very few firms with strict GPA requirements, remember that firms may be assessing the following factors in addition to law school performance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior work experience<\/li>\n<li>Undergraduate (or other graduate) performance<\/li>\n<li>Diversity (defined broadly)<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated interest in <em>their firm<\/em> (attendance at receptions, communication with attorneys there, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Specific reasons for why you want to join a large law firm (ex: professional development opportunities), combined with a particular interest in their office (ex: geographic ties + a specific practice group)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Work with your CDO advisor to develop your narrative, and be sure to identify the features or attributes that each firm\u00a0promotes on its recruiting website &#8211; those are aspects they value and feel are distinguishing (ex: Choate&#8217;s &#8220;one office&#8221; model)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there are very few firms with strict GPA requirements, remember that firms may be assessing the following factors in addition to law school performance: Prior work experience Undergraduate (or other graduate) performance Diversity (defined broadly) Demonstrated interest in their firm (attendance at receptions, communication with attorneys there, etc.) Specific reasons for why you want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/2019\/05\/22\/am-i-a-strong-candidate-for-oci\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Am I a Strong Candidate for OCI?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6905,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}